Chapter 12: The Mysterious Old Man
"Pangu is just waking up, all things are just opening, chaotic essence, Qi Ze, the sky is unpredictable, the gods are devouring, and the corners of the sky and the earth are the corners. The old voice sounded again.
"Who'sβwho's talking?" I looked around in amazement, the white dots were still in the distance, and it was still so dark and silent.
"Idiot, wake up quickly...", this time he changed his tune, and his majestic and magnetic voice pierced my eardrums.
With his call, my body also reacted, shaking slightly, he did not stop, continued to call me, his voice implied an inexplicable support, it was quite a spiritual power.
Until I opened my eyes slightly, I vaguely saw an old man in front of me, his big nose close to me, his dark skin set off his honest appearance, and he looked like an honest farmer.
Then a wave of tiredness came up, I felt so tired, I felt that the old man was not interesting, and I closed my half-open eyes again, and then continued to be drowsy.
Before I fell unconscious, I heard the old man sigh, "Alas, this kid is too obsessed..."
When I woke up again, it was already dusk, the sunset was like a camel's egg in the distance, and the scene of a burning cloud was so magnificent, to be precise, the remnant sun was like blood.
The wind blew gently, mixed with the smell of medicinal smoke, and an old man sat next to me, with his back to me, looking into the distance, and he asked me, "Finally woke up, did you sleep comfortably?"
"Who the hell are you?" I asked him, confused.
"I'm from afarβ" The old man pretended to be mysterious, and said the previous sentence without moving on to the next.
After a long time, he stopped talking, and I was particularly annoyed by this kind of person, and secretly cursed: "If you are a life-saving benefactor, you are a life-saving benefactor! Everyone is a gentleman, just say it, and after I say it, I will invite you to dinner! What kind of mystery is it? I don't know what I am most tired of saying is not saying the next sentence?"
I got up from the grass, patted the dirt on my buttocks, and pretended to leave, "Oh, thanks then, goodbye, I'm home for dinner." β
The old man heard that I was about to get up and go home, turned his head, raised his cigarette pipe and was about to hit my ass, (the cigarette pipe was originally a special product of the Cantonese people, similar to the thickness of the arm, the specific smoking method will not be said, check it yourself, and it will be more refreshing to smoke~) angrily shouted, "You kid, do you have such a person? I am your savior!
Then like an angry little girl, she cast a resentful look at me, "No, why do you have to do something for me..."Seeing his eyes, I felt a cool breeze on my spine and goosebumps.
"Uh... Repay you... I tentatively asked him, after all, he was my savior, and I raised my head and smiled, "Everything else is easy to say... Let me do ten things for you!"
Originally, he was relatively close to me, but before I finished speaking, he was frightened by me, and jumped backwards, "Bah, bah", pointing at me and saying anxiously, "Lao Tzu's sexual orientation is normal, don't spread it and ruin Lao Tzu's reputation!"
He didn't pause and continued, "Back then, I crossed the Atlantic, and I didn't know how many thousands of girls I charmed..."
He suddenly stopped talking, then took a puff of cigarette, turned around and looked at the remnant sun with affection, spit out a puff of smoke, sighed, and lowered his head to laugh at himself, "Alas, it's a pity, all people are not as good as the sky..."
Suddenly, "Oops... It's too much...", he turned around again, straightened his collar and continued, "Destroying my unfathomable image... I can't!"
He was so startled that I couldn't cry and laugh, and hurriedly waved his hand at him, "Just your turtle style..." Aren't you just... The one in that inn... Do you like to brag old man?"
"Quality... Quality..."He didn't hurry to gently press down my fingers with his palm, coughed lightly and cleared his throat, "Don't point fingers at people... Calm down... Ha~ Also, although I'm old, I don't like to brag... He is a down-to-earth person. β
"How did you end up here?"
"I'm destined for you"
"Okay, just... What do you need me to do for you?" I subconsciously covered my crotch and said, "Don't sell yourself..."
When the old man saw my action, he kicked my ass and scolded: "They all say that Lao Tzu is a normal person, not a comrade! Why do you say that you are so badly beaten like this mud baby, do you want to taste my cigarette pipe" and then pretended to raise his cigarette pipe (I later learned that this cigarette pipe has always been with him and is inseparable, but this is also a later story. οΌ
"I like to eat food from all over the country... It's just home-cooked food," he pinned the cigarette pipe to the hook on his belt, which looked a little obscene, but it didn't hurt me to close my eyes to him.
He took a puff of cigarette with a lingering sigh, closed his eyes and enjoyed the fluttering feeling, and when he opened his eyes, he continued to me very seriously: "Let's put aside the food first, and then we have to deal with the things we are about to face, and it's almost over..."
After a pause, he asked me, "Do you remember how you felt when you first entered that inn?"
"Remember," I muttered
"What does it feel like?" he said, kneading a small ball of tobacco as he sat on the grass.
"It's lifeless, it's a bit out of touch with reality, maybe they're all a group of cold and lonely people," I replied with the feeling at the time.
"The drunkard asked you for a drink at that time, and you didn't hesitate to answer, do you remember how the wine felt at that time?" the old man silently filled the cigarette holder with shredded cigarettes, and asked casually, not looking at me at all.
"I feel that his wine has a lot of stamina, and it tastes pure, it is spicier than the national liquor Moutai, and the degree should be very high, and this wine should be a certain number of years. "I'm still soaking in the feeling of drinking that wine.
"It's been a few years, but it's not suitable for you to drink, you can't bear it if you drink it, but there will be some adverse reactions" The old man smoked the grass cigarette to himself, and then exhaled a wisp of green smoke.
"What can't you bear? What's so strange about that broken wine, when my comrades-in-arms and I were drinking a big bowl of corn wine from Africa in the tavern, it was spicy, it was refreshing, compared to the wine on our continent, it was too much, and the momentum was much stronger, what could I not bear. "I felt that the old man looked down on me a little bit for not being able to drink so much, and debated unconvinced.
"Hehe, after all these years, I'm still so impulsive" He smiled and touched my head, his eyes full of love, and then he didn't say anything.
I brushed away his hand on my head and continued, "Oh, don't touch my head, you old man, why are you so pretending to be so inscrutable?"
He continued, "Boy, there are many things that you are still a young man, but you will have to touch sooner or later. β
"Then tell me what's the matter, give me a science popularization," I laughed at him playfully.
"For example, metaphysics, which is the second science, contains a lot of things. He said without turning his head, and continued to look at the sky in contemplation.
"Cut, I occasionally study metaphysics, but I still don't believe it. β
The old man turned around and patted my brain and said, "Whether you believe it or not, you will have to come into contact with it sooner or later anyway, the metaphysics that has been passed down in China for so many years naturally has its inherited truth, and everything that exists has its value." β
"I agree with you in the second half, everything has a meaning to exist, but I am skeptical of the first half of what you say, I reserve my opinion" I said as I looked him in the eye.
"It's really rotten wood that can't be carved, and fools can't be taught," his hand habitually slapped at my brain.
I was slapped on the brain by the old man a few times, and then I was anxious, "Old man, don't slap my brain again, it will hurt!" I said to him impatiently, "You are really verbose, you can finish everything you want to say at once, I have to go home for dinner!"
"You touch your neck, is there a ring of protruding marks" His hand habitually tried to pat my head, but I blocked it.
After I touched my neck, as if I had been electrocuted, I stood still as petrified, my back and spine were cold, and my cerebral cortex was numb.
"Don't panic, isn't it still me, your little mark is not a problem for me at all, calm down!" the old man noticed my expression, and this time he didn't slap me on the head, but on the shoulder.
After being surprised, I thought that the old man was pretending to fool me again.
The scar on my neck only appeared after I had drunk, and I thought it was just a post-alcohol malaise.
A large number of people around the world will experience this discomfort after drinking, some are allergic, some have a fever, and some people's arms will be fat, as long as they go to the hospital to receive medication, so there is no fuss.
The old man babbled on and on about a lot of nonsense to me, and I took it all as the wind in my ears, and waited for him to finish his left ear and out of the right ear. He said let me do something with him, keep me safe or something, to put it bluntly, he was messing with him.
After a short nap, when he finally finished, I patted the mud off my butt and waved goodbye to him, leaving him with a back.
When the old man saw me so rude, he was so angry that he blew his beard and stamped his feet, looked at me, turned away, and walked away without looking back.
I walked in the direction of the city with a general memory, I have been to this place, but not often, but there is also a little vague and sporadic memory, if you see passers-by and ask them for directions!
I don't like to be led by others, especially by this bad old man, who is very passive and feels insecure.
So I'd rather walk back on my own than follow the old man.
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